Word: midriffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost three months Jose Melgar, who fired a bullet into the midriff of President Luis Sanchez Cerro (TIME, March 14), has sat in his cell under sentence of death, fear gnawing at his heart...
...annual report of BIZ or Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich, famed in English as BIS (Bank for International Settlements), in French as Bri (Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan Banker Gates W. McGarrah, President of BIZ was seen to have eased his substantial midriff by undoing as usual the two bottom buttons of his vest. What President McGarrah had to do was to report a notable BIZ success and issue to the world an ominous warning which he hoped would produce action...
...turned up in more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times. I might say the Danube was in such full flood that it overflowed its banks. In fact, it would...
Last week he was paralyzed. Numbness crept up his legs, to his midriff. Nonetheless he was desperately at work to recheck and recheck figures which indicated that Light's exact speed was very close to 186,285 miles per second. He dictated a brief introduction to the scientific report of the experiment. Not before that was finished did Albert Abraham Michelson's guard go down and Death's numbness creep into his heart...
...France's midriff is the bleak Massif Central, mountain chain where rise little streams which become rivers that water most of Southwestern France. Last week four days' rain filled the porous mountainsides like a sponge, precipitated a flood which covered a district large as Pennsylvania, killed more than 300 people, did $24,000,000 worth of damage...